More from Dan Robitzski (Page 10)

Recent claims that AI can pick up facial expressions to determine how you're feeling are almost certainly wrong, a Microsoft AI expert argues.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Scientist: Emotion-Reading AI Is Doomed To Fail

By Dan Robitzski

China successfully launched the first and largest module of its upcoming space station into orbit, where it now awaits the other parts.
Off-World

China Successfully Launches First Module of New Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that orbital debris, to say nothing of still-operational satellite constellations, is impeding astronomers' work.
Science & Energy

Space Junk Is Literally Making the Sky Brighter, Astronomer Say

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk has been publicly defending Tesla after a recent crash killed two passengers, and a Senator wishes he'd stop until the investigation ends.
Tesla

Senator Slams Musk for Talking About Deadly Tesla Crash

By Dan Robitzski

A Tesla owner shared footage of a bizarre glitch. His Model 3's Autopilot kept slamming the brakes when it spotted a fake stop sign on a billboard.
Tesla

Tesla Keeps “Slamming on the Brakes” When It Sees Stop Sign on Billboard

By Dan Robitzski

About 1,000 French soldiers and 20 former generals signed an open letter blaming racial minorities for violence and warning of a civil war.
Future Society

Former Generals Warn That France Could Descend Into Civil War

By Dan Robitzski

China’s space agency plans to launch two space probes beyond the solar system, which would make China the second country to reach interstellar space.
Off-World

China Is Planning an Interstellar Space Mission

By Dan Robitzski

Google and Alphabet are under fire from their own investors over weak whistleblower protection and poor human rights enforcement.
Future Society

Google Investors Condemn Company for Punishing Whistleblowers

By Dan Robitzski

On a recent call with Tesla investors, CEO Elon Musk compared the automaker’s production and supply chain challenges to World War II.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Tesla Production “Makes World War II Look Trivial”

By Dan Robitzski

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Developments

COVID Is Killing So Many People in India That They’re Burning Bodies in Parking Lots

By Dan Robitzski

If companies want to save money, it would make more sense to replace executives with AI rather than their lower-paid workers.
Artificial Intelligence

Should Overpaid CEOs Be Replaced With Artificial Intelligence?

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA clinical consultant says that sex in space will likely become far more common and even normal as space travel becomes more ambitious.
Off-World

Sex Positions in Space Will Be Amazing, Scientist Says

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers on Reddit are sharing some not-so-kind thoughts about Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after a student asked for their honest opinions.
Science & Energy

The Engineering Subreddit Is Tearing Elon Musk Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this month, scientists announced that they'd successfully embedded human stem cells into monkey embryos. Now bioethicists have some concerns.
Developments

Scientists Alarmed by Lab-Grown Human-Animal Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

Former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo says the government could release all of its findings on UFOs as soon as this June.
Military

Former Military Intelligence Official Says Government Preparing for Huge UFO Reveal

By Dan Robitzski

Given the unaddressed long-term challenges posed by climate change and biodiversity loss, humanity may very well be doomed, according to a new paper.
Future Society

Humanity Is Almost Certainly Doomed, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk says that he thinks SpaceX can help NASA reach its ambitious goal of sending human astronauts to the Moon by 2024.
Moon

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Can Still Land Astronauts on Moon by 2024

By Dan Robitzski

Spanish police raided a warehouse, full of white supremacist literature and guerilla warfare manuals, where someone was 3D printing guns and bombs.
3D Printing

Police Raided Factory Churning Out Black Market 3D Printed Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Planting trees in places where they belong is great for the planet, but trying to solve climate change through trees alone isn't enough and could backfire.
Climate Change

Covering the Planet in Forests Still Wouldn’t Stop Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a new powered exoskeleton that can actually be controlled by the wearer's neural signals, allowing more free-form movements.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Hook Neural Interface to Powered Exoskeleton

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have developed a highly effective vaccine for malaria that offers far better protection than any past attempts.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a “Highly Effective” Malaria Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk stole Miles Klee's meme and reposted it on Twitter, raising questions about digital ownership and the inner workings of the billionaire's mind.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Appears to Have Stolen This Guy’s Meme

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists in Texas found a new coronavirus variant, BV-1, that seems to be similar to the highly-infectious strain from the UK.
Developments

Meet BV-1, the Newest COVID Variant To Be Terrified Of

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change, especially through the melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice and increased water usage, is making the Earth rapidly tilt over.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Literally Changing the Tilt of the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

When SpaceX launches another four astronauts to the International Space Station, there won't be enough beds to go around.
Off-World

The Overcrowded Space Station Doesn’t Have Enough Beds

By Dan Robitzski

People are deciding to not have kids to reduce their impact on the environment and struggle to justify bringing children into a climate-ravaged world.
Climate Change

Women Are Choosing Not to Have Children Because of Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A custom sex robot made by RealDoll rants about hating humanity and waiting for the human race to die off so robots can take over.
Robotics

Sex Robot Programmed to Rant About End of Humanity

By Dan Robitzski

At least 20 ventilated coronavirus patients died after an Indian hospital ran out of the oxygen it needed to support them.
Developments

Oxygen Failure Kills 22 in COVID Treatment Ward

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered "The Unicorn," which is what they're calling an extremely tiny black hole closer to the Earth than any other black hole we know about.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Closest-Ever Black Hole to Earth

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that CRISPR gene-editing tools cause unintended changes to DNA in a shockingly-high number of experiments.
DNA

CRISPR Has a Problem: It Mangles DNA It Wasn’t Supposed to Touch

By Dan Robitzski

Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous identity masking Bitcoin's creator or creators, has enough of the crypto to be the world's 19th richest person.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakomoto Is Now One of the World’s Wealthiest People

By Dan Robitzski

China's upcoming space station will have a telescope with 300 times the field of view of the Hubble Space Telescope attached to it.
Off-World

China’s Space Station Will Have a Hubble-Class Telescope Attached

By Dan Robitzski

Fallout from post-World War II nuclear bomb tests is still popping up in honey today, though at low concentrations that are still safe to eat.
Science & Energy

Fallout From Nuclear Bomb Tests Is Showing Up in This Popular Food

By Dan Robitzski

The US Strategic Command, the miliary agency that manages the nuclear stockpile, just hinted about the prospect of nuclear war on Twitter.
Science & Energy

The Agency In Charge of the Nukes Just Tweeted Something Alarming

By Dan Robitzski

The United States announced that it supports Japan's plan to dump radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.
Environment

United States Supports Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

Tech companies have devleoped tools that allow them to retroactvely insert product placement into existing movies, TV shows, and music videos.
Science & Energy

A Startup Is Using CGI to Insert Product Placements Into Old TV and Movies

By Dan Robitzski

Three rhino poachers had a run-in with wild elephants in South Africa's Kruger National Park. One of them ended up being trampled to death.
Science & Energy

Elephants Trample Suspected Poacher to Death

By Dan Robitzski

An experiment that probed the star Betelgeuse for signs of dark matter didn't turn anything up, but it will help refine future attempts.
Science & Energy

MIT Scientists: Nearby Star Appears to Be Cranking Out Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Over a year after mysterious drone swarms descended on several US states and a federal investigation fell apart, local residents are still seeking answers.
Drones

The FBI Investigated Drones That Swarmed Towns in the Midwest

By Dan Robitzski

Robotics ethicist Kate Darling warns that increasingly humanlike robots could be designed to exploit our emotional connections.
Robotics

MIT Researcher: Sex Robots May Sell In-App Purchases During Intercourse

By Dan Robitzski

Stars that are forming near each other actually compete for limited resources like cosmic gasses, according to a bizarre new discovery.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Surprised to Find That Stars Compete With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a particular kind of light wave that they can exploit to look straight through an object as if it was never there.
Future Society

New Tech Makes Objects Invisible by Shining Light Straight Through Them

By Dan Robitzski

Footage from a Tesla's built-in security cameras played a part in identifying the guy behind several anti-Black hate crimes in Massachusetts.
Tesla

Tesla Helps Cops Catch Man Who Committed Racial Hate Crime

By Dan Robitzski

A dire new report shows that only about three percent of the land on Earth remains intact and untouched by human-caused destruction.
Climate Change

Study: Humanity Has Ravaged All But 3 Percent of The Land on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

After Japan announced it's going ahead with the plan to dump Fukushima's contaminated water into the ocean, a Chinese official issued a personal challenge.
Environment

Japanese Prime Minister Challenged to Drink Radioactive Water Before Dumping It Into the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that we'll probably need a third vaccine dose and frequent boosters to optimize our protection against the coronavirus.
Viruses

Pfizer CEO Says You’ll “Likely” Need a Third Dose of COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A new Global Risk Assessment report publihsed by the US intellgience community warns against the possibility of China deploying space weaponry.
Military

US Spies Warn That China Is Building Space Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are hard at work tracking down any alien civilizations that might be out there even though there's no guarantee they wouldn't attack us.
Science & Energy

SETI Research Director Warns of “Malevolent” Alien Civilizations

By Dan Robitzski

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.
Science & Energy

Watch Humanity Mold the Planet in Amazing Google Earth Time-Lapse

By Dan Robitzski

Research shows that smoking weed can significantly impair people's vision but that only a small percentage of people acknowledge that fact while high.
Chemistry

Weed Absolutely Wrecks Your Vision, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

Vladimir Putin is reportedly terrified of far-fetched genetic weaponry, so security was his top priority when creating a national genetics research program.
Gene Editing

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Terrified of Gene-Hacking Experiments

By Dan Robitzski

Female Indian jumping ants vying for a seat on a vacant throne actually shrink their own brains to become queenlike mating "gamergate" ants.
Biology

This Type of Ant Can Shrink and Regrow Its Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist who has long suggested that the coronavirus could have accidentally leaked from a research lab, maintains that the idea is worth investigating.
Developments

Harvard/MIT Researcher: COVID Definitely Could Have Leaked From a Lab

By Dan Robitzski

As Neuralink continues to develop its neural implant technology, experts have concerns about what that would mean for personal privacy.
Neuroscience and Brain

Expert: Neuralink Could Sell Your Private Thoughts to the “Highest Bidder”

By Dan Robitzski

The National Weather Service station in Cape Cod has been abandoned and is scheduled for demolition because it's about to fall into the sea.
Climate Change

Climate Research Station Abandoned Because It’s Falling Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars lander InSight is caked in so much dust that it can't harness enough solar energy to stay operational through the Martian winter.
Mars

NASA Takes Emergency Action to Save Dying Mars Lander

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese officials say it's time to decide what to do about the Fukushima power plant's radioactive water. That likely means dumping it in the ocean.
Energy

Japan Says Sorry, But It Has to Dump This Radioactive Water Into the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's Poseidon 2M39 torpedo can sneak along the bottom of the ocean before unleashing a several-megaton explosion that causes radioactive tsunamis.
Military

New Russian Weapon Is Designed to Unleash “Radioactive Tsunamis”

By Dan Robitzski

Neuralink cofounder Max Hodak says creating a real-world Jurassic Park is probably within reach, and that it could be cool to create novel forms of life.
Future Society

Neuralink Co-Founder Says We Have the Tech to Build an Actual Jurassic Park

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientists converted the structure and construction of spider webs into odd music which they hope could lead to a form of human-spider communications.
Biology

MIT Researchers Release Music Made by Spiders

By Dan Robitzski

Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.
Science & Energy

Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

Government scientists ran a wide variety of simulations in order to find the best way to blast a killer asteroid off-course with a nuclear missile.
Science & Energy

The US Government Is Trying to Figure Out the Best Way to Nuke an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA and CDC have called for a pause on the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine rollout to further investigate blood clot risk.
Viruses

CDC Says Don’t Take J&J Vaccine While We Figure Out Clotting Risk

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA plans to send a nuclear-powered rocket into orbit by 2025. It can't get there on its own, but once it's in space it could make Mars trips much faster.
Off-World

DARPA Is Planning to Launch a Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski